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Dangerous Moves is a french film of genre Drama directed by Richard Dembo released in USA on 24 may 1985 with Michel Piccoli
Dangerous Moves (1984)
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Add to a movie listDangerous Moves (French: La Diagonale du fou) is a 1984 French-language film about chess, directed by Richard Dembo and starring Michel Piccoli and Alexandre Arbatt. Its original French title is La diagonale du fou ("The Fool's Diagonal", referring to the chess piece called the bishop in English but the fool in French). The film was a co-production between companies in France and Switzerland. It tells the story of two very different men competing in the final match of the World Chess Championship. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew who holds the title, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.
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Pavius Fromm est un jeune génie des échecs, impétueux et provocateur. Lituanien, il a fui son pays et la mainmise soviétique, et réside en Occident. Pour la finale du championnat du monde d'échecs en Suisse, il doit affronter un compatriote bien plus âgé, Liebskind, qui a, lui, le soutien du régime.Actors
Michel Piccoli
(Akiva Liebskind)
Liv Ullmann
(Marina Fromm)
Alexandre Arbatt
(Pavius Fromm)
Leslie Caron
(Henia Liebskind)
Wojciech Pszoniak
(Le grand maître Felton - l'équipe de Fromm)
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